The night was deep and quiet.
Everyone in the camp had fallen asleep. Even Weiwei lay snoring beside the farmland, the wound on his head completely gone. He slept soundly.
Chen Fan glanced at Weiwei lying beside the farmland with the Porcelain Crock tucked protectively against him, and couldn't help chuckling.
He had learned this exotic beast's name from Qi Feng.
Sky-Swallowing Crocodile.
An extremely Rare kind of exotic beast.
A faction's reserves included more than exotic treasures and connections. They also included knowledge. For instance, among the ancient texts he had obtained from the Pill Sect, he had discovered a rather alarming piece of information.
Everyone in Jiangbei agreed on one thing.
"Eternal Night" had descended 378 years ago.
Afterward, Eternal Night had shrouded the entire continent, and strange entities had run rampant across the world.
But—
One of the ancient fragments from the Pill Sect recorded that Eternal Night had descended eight thousand years ago and ravaged the world. Many factions had joined forces to drive it away and restore peace.
Yet, for some unknown reason,
those factions had gradually vanished from the world, leaving neither cultivators nor buildings behind.
Until several years later—378 years ago—when Eternal Night descended again.
Strange entities had once more ravaged the world.
That meant Eternal Night hadn't descended on this world for the first time. Like the tides, it came in cycles.
Another crucial piece of information recorded there was this.
The Pill Sect had been secretly exploring a remote mountain in Jiangnan, where they suspected they had discovered the Ruins of an Ancient Force. Any Building Blueprint or exotic treasure found there would surely be of a high grade.
To him, it felt a little like
an old server shutting down and a new one opening.
But before they could make